I have a map with many icons which has many macros in their labels, as you can see here:
It's a small image (cut out from a bigger image) of servers with versions of packages that we look closely into. Where ever it's empty, it means that the package is not installed. As you can see, some packages on the first two servers are more recent than the ones on the last two servers. Zabbix is really cool that since all these versions were done in macros, I only needed to copy the whole content of the label once and paste it back also once using mass update and voila! In the beginning, I set the update intervals to 20 minutes to get a quick result of what I'm putting in. Everything was okay, so I set it back to 86400 (1 day) because we don't need a constant update on the version of packages every hour. The many of the packages began turning into *UNKNOWN*. Is there a reason why? And is there a solution or workaround?
I've noticed in the process that the screen also has a "Data Overview" resource which can do the same thing without any effort at all (so this is amazingly even easier but it doesn't allow changing the order of the list), but all the *UNKNOWN* packages that would show in the map before are not indicated here at all, so that one cannot tell the difference if a package is not installed or the Zabbix server just don't know about it. So overall, it would be best to see no or very few *UNKNOWN* packages, but I would rather see them than be misled to believe that these packages are not installed at all. And this is pretty important because someone else will be making a report on this for our clients.
Can any one help me here? Whichever solution is acceptable. For item type information, I chose character instead of text because my items are short, could that be the problem? By the way, I'm using 3.0.2.
I'm new to Zabbix (and monitoring programs in general) and reallly hope my office uses it. I'm very impressed so far though by this free open source software. Can't believe it's this good, simple and pretty, yet free.
It's a small image (cut out from a bigger image) of servers with versions of packages that we look closely into. Where ever it's empty, it means that the package is not installed. As you can see, some packages on the first two servers are more recent than the ones on the last two servers. Zabbix is really cool that since all these versions were done in macros, I only needed to copy the whole content of the label once and paste it back also once using mass update and voila! In the beginning, I set the update intervals to 20 minutes to get a quick result of what I'm putting in. Everything was okay, so I set it back to 86400 (1 day) because we don't need a constant update on the version of packages every hour. The many of the packages began turning into *UNKNOWN*. Is there a reason why? And is there a solution or workaround?
I've noticed in the process that the screen also has a "Data Overview" resource which can do the same thing without any effort at all (so this is amazingly even easier but it doesn't allow changing the order of the list), but all the *UNKNOWN* packages that would show in the map before are not indicated here at all, so that one cannot tell the difference if a package is not installed or the Zabbix server just don't know about it. So overall, it would be best to see no or very few *UNKNOWN* packages, but I would rather see them than be misled to believe that these packages are not installed at all. And this is pretty important because someone else will be making a report on this for our clients.
Can any one help me here? Whichever solution is acceptable. For item type information, I chose character instead of text because my items are short, could that be the problem? By the way, I'm using 3.0.2.
I'm new to Zabbix (and monitoring programs in general) and reallly hope my office uses it. I'm very impressed so far though by this free open source software. Can't believe it's this good, simple and pretty, yet free.
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